hi kathy, i would like to tell you about the moon and it's characteristics.
- when i looked at the picture of the moon i saw that there were many black dots on it.
- there were also little circles.
-there was a dot on the south tip of the moon. Around that there was a very dark (almost black) ring.
- It looked like something had exploded all around the dot.
Some features on the lunar surface:
- there are crater chains, rilles and mountains on the moon's surface.
Crater chains: in straight paths are from rocks thrown out during an impact event and landing in a row.
Rilles: are long valley crossing maria that formed as underground lava channels which collapsed after the hot lava flowed away.
Mountains: occur in the centers of craters* that are longer than 40 kilometers in diameter.
* a crater is a large, bowl-shaped ditch in the ground or on the surface of a planet or the moon. This ditch/ cavity can be caused by an explosion or a meteorite.
- These objects hit the moon at many different speeds. There is no atmosphere on the moon. Therefore it cannot protect itself from meteorites, asteroids, comets, and other things like that.
